During National Storytelling Week, 30 January – 5 February, we are celebrating the incredible storytelling talents within our University community. Novelists, biographers, poets, playwrights and actors; our academics and our students find diverse ways to tell a good yarn. Here we hear from two acclaimed writers, Naomi Booth and Claire Harman, who also teach the Creative Writing MA, MLitt and PhD courses run by the Department of English Studies.

This July will see the return of Durham City Run Festival and we are delighted to be supporting the event as a major partner. Take on the historic streets of Durham for a midsummer evening of racing!

Big Hog Friendly Litter Pick Challenge 2024

Take part in Oxfam’s Second Hand September. Shop second hand to take a stance against fast fashion and dress for a fairer world.

Congratulations to our My Greenspace app monthly winners!

A new exhibition opening soon at our Oriental Museum depicts the horrors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombing.  

Our scientists are taking their research out of the lab and into Durham City in May as part of the international Pint of Science festival. 

As Durham University celebrates the 400th anniversary of the Shakespeare First Folio, performing arts productions will be held across the city in honour of the playwright.

Professor Tony Fawcett has been appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education), responsible for ensuring our educational offer is high quality and innovative for all students.

Dr Shunmin Zhu, who is a Marie Curie Fellow working at the Department of Engineering, will join a cohort of outstanding young scientists from around the world at the prestigious 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

Celebrating 10 Years of Team Durham and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

The Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science project at St John’s has been awarded a five-year, £6.2million grant to support bishops and senior Christian leaders worldwide to engage with science.